Chapter 2

Dimitri

I was in the middle of packing my bags when the sound of a knock interrupted my thoughts. I tried to ignore it but the knocking just got more persistent.

"Who in the world would be knocking at this hour?" I thought to myself.

As I slowly walked to the door I called out, "Who's there?"

"It's me Dimitri, I want to talk to you about something." cried Lissa.

I opened the door slightly and then decided to just let her come in.

"You're leaving!" she shouted pointing to my bag, "You're leaving in a time I need you the most? How could you?"

"Princess you don't-"

"Don't you tell me I don't understand. She was my best friend Dimitri, I think I understood her better than you." She said with tears threatening to fill her eyes.

"Lissa," I said dropping the titles, "You really don't understand. I made a promise to Rose that if she or I ever got turned into one of those vile creatures that we would want the other to go and hunt us down and kill us. And right now I am fulfilling my promise." I said returning to packing my bag.

"Let me come with you."

"No."

"No?"

"Yes."

"Yes? Wait I'm confused. Yes, as in Yes, I can come with you?" she asked unsure.

"No. As in No, you can't come. Princess, you can't come because I can't keep you safe and kill Rose because you would try and stop me."

"I wouldn't try to stop you. In fact I want to help you." She said getting excited, "Dimitri I went looking through the churches attic and don't give me that look."

What look?"

"That look where I am not supposed to do something that's wrong, Rose always told me that you give her that look all the time," I flinched at that, "Dimitri I'm sorry I didn't mean to say that. As I as saying, there were a couple of books up there that Christian and I found and one of them was Anna's Diary. I was skimming through it when I came to a part about how Vladimir turned a Strigoi back to a dhampir."

"No, that's impossible. You can't bring a Strigoi back, its impossible." I was completely stunned at the sound of this.

"No, its true, look," she dug in her bag and pulled out a small little handbook titled Anna's Diary, "It says that once she got close enough that she could look in his eyes She felt the bond open back up. It says that he reached out and grabbed her by the arms and she felt all the darkness in him. Now this part is a little messed up so I'm not really sure if its right, but something about opening the bond and sucking the darkness out of him." She said looking at me.

"Sucking the darkness?" I walked over and took the book from her.

"…I seen him sitting on a log his fangs were even longer than before, my heart rate picked up and at the same moment he turned his head to look at me, and I could see those brown eyes that I loved. I could feel the bond slowly open up again, I could also feel how much darkness he had in him. I slowly started to take it away when he got up from his seat so fast I didn't even have time to blink.

"Anna, what are you doing here? Have you come to join me?" He asked in a hiss.

"No. I would never want this life for me or for you…"

"Well it's a shame I really want you to be with me." He said slowly inclining his head toward me.

"No!" I screamed.

As soon as his fangs reached my neck I opened the bond further and sucked all of his darkness from him. I fainted and woke a couple days later to find myself in the clinic with Vladimir safely at my side, I turned and noticed his eyes were brown again and his complextion was not as pale anymore, but most of all I had my Vladimir back…"

"Dimitri are you okay?" Lissa asked concerned.

"Lissa I'm fine, where did you find this at?"

"In the attic. Why? Dimitri what is the matter?"

I couldn't answer right away, I turned and sat on the bed contemplating whether I could bring myself to break the rules and bring the princess with me or follow my instinct and leave her behind, even though part me- which was most of me- was screaming at me to bring her.

"Dimitri?" tried Lissa

"Lissa, do me a favor and go and pack your bags. We leave first thing in the morning."